Quote Originally Posted by Dan View Post
So yeah, I've applied for Sassuolo, who barely avoided relegation in Serie A, and Schalke, who didn't avoid relegation in the Bundesliga. If I don't get either of those I'll probably stick around at Groningen until something else comes up that's interesting, but my contract runs out next season & I have no intention of signing a new deal even if I do make it through another whole season.
Yeah, about that...



I got rejected from every job I applied for, mostly for stuff like having never managed a team that's been in a relegation battle or not using set pieces enough, which are definitely sensible reasons to discount a manager without even speaking to them. I did get one interview, but got turned down from that because they didn't like the changed expectations I'd proposed, despite the fact I'd actually accepted their expectations, so basically FM's terrible logic has stranded me here for a while longer.

It has, however, gone very well so far this season, with us currently sitting in third place at the winter break. We didn't do a lot in the way of transfers, partly because I was trying to leave, but we did have to sell one of our starting defensive midfielders as he wanted to jump to a bigger league & I could hardly blame him when I'm trying to do the exact same thing.

I'm hoping that, without the fixture crush Europa League football led to last season, we'll avoid another complete collapse over the back half of the year & be able to secure European football without having to endure the end of season playoff.

I'm still applying for jobs that look interesting, but I think I'll need a bit more of a reputation boost to actually be able to get on to some of the shortlists as most of the time I'm getting pushed out by 'stronger candidates', so a decent run in Europe next season would be greatly appreciated if we can get that sorted.